American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky died this week at 29 years old — just two weeks shy of his 30th birthday. His peers remember him as humble despite his immense skill. American chess ...

“Sometimes I still wonder how I got into a so-called boring game like chess,” said 16-year-old Ratik Agrawal from Bhilai, a city in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Last year, the high ...

This wonderful vacuum tube chess set, by maker Paul Fryer, actually has electricity running inside the board so that the tubes can draw power and glow as you move them from square to square. It is ...

Nixie tubes aren’t exactly the most cutting-edge technology, but there’s something to be said for their retro-futuristic glow and style. Enterprising hackers have make clocks out of these tubes, as ...